Welcome to the Return of The Mahaduta
By mahaduta | November 21, 2009
Welcome to my new blog concerning how computer gaming and the spirit of questing are linked.
I believe that computer games (in fact, games in all of their forms) offer us an opportunity to feel a command of mastery, a locus of control, and an imaginative re-visioning of ourselves not available in other mediums. The gaming medium possesses the same mythological steps of hero development that has been studied by Joseph Campbell and is found in all of our mystical and mythical traditions.
So what exactly is ‘The Mahaduta’?
Its a title that I adopted to reflect my gaming persona. Just like the olden days of Dungeons & Dragons where I would adopt a fantasy sounding name to pretend to be an epic hero, The Mahaduta, is just a continuance of that proud and geeky tradition.
So why is this ‘A Return’?
Well, I adopted The Mahaduta name when I started up my glorious introduction to Guild Wars where I dreamed up an inspiring message of spreading the Shambhala message to other gamers. It fit both in terms of personal inspiration and also in terms of fantasy feel.
The Satvajita was a small Guild that never grew to greater than ten members and never accomplished much. There continues to be searches for the Satvajita website (which are redirected here), allot of them pertaining to the Shambhala City image. I have included it in this post for your enjoyment.
Shambhala, the Enlightened Kingdom
Over time I became less interested in Guild Wars. The MMOs are so time intensive and GW had become too much of a grindfest to be enjoyable. The Guild and my characters are in hiatus.
I thought then that the Satvajita could be a launching point for a web Forum to talk about gaming and philosophy. The Forum lasted even shorter than the Guild. At least the Guild was visited by real people instead of bots…
The short-lived Satvajita Forum
The Forum was taken down about two months ago so now we are here, a blog to discuss what I consider to be an interesting top – the human spirit in gaming. The posts will be infrequent but hopefully insightful and worth reading.
Thanks for visiting,
The Mahaduta
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